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Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | tears upon her face Some deep sorrow gnaws ever at her heart Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her and sometimes I suspect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant I have always felt that there was something singular and questionable in this man s character but the adventure of last night brings al... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | could go off to the other end of the world and leave me here alone You re not crabby are you No no not at all I think I ll go Have some refreshment said the little man and he added in a confidential way It s always like this ain t it And must be unless you had polygamy only the other way round you understand He laughed... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | sure of being liked wherever he appeared Darcy was continually giving offense The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic Bingley had never met with more pleasant people or prettier girls in his life everybody had been most kind and attentive to him there had been no formality... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | said Mr Giles recovering his usual tone of patronage and sends his respectful duty sir That s well said the doctor Seeing you here reminds me Mr Giles that on the day before that on which I was called away so hurriedly I executed at the request of your good mistress a small commission in your favour Just step into this... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | his frightened and somewhat fawning way They ll search Appin with candles and we must have all things straight We re digging the bit guns and swords into the moss ye see and these I am thinking will be your ain French clothes We ll be to bury them I believe Bury my French clothes cried Alan Troth no And he laid hold up... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | inclement one and the tall traveller had the high warm collar turned up to protect his throat against the bitter March wind He appeared as far as the guard could judge by so hurried an inspection to be a man between fifty and sixty years of age who had retained a good deal of the vigour and activity of his youth In one... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Mrs Price seemed rather surprised that a girl should be fixed on when she had so many fine boys but accepted the offer most thankfully assuring them of her daughter s being a very well disposed good humoured girl and trusting they would never have cause to throw her off She spoke of her farther as somewhat delicate and... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | made my way up the river before I reached you at the fazenda I instituted very particular inquiries about Maple White At Para they knew nothing Fortunately I had a definite clew for there was a particular picture in his sketch book which showed him taking lunch with a certain ecclesiastic at Rosario This priest I was a... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | in anything else I deserve neither such praise nor such censure cried Elizabeth I am _not_ a great reader and I have pleasure in many things In nursing your sister I am sure you have pleasure said Bingley and I hope it will be soon increased by seeing her quite well Elizabeth thanked him from her heart and then walked ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | a great while and indeed she must thankfully say that their petticoats were all very strong For shame Emma Do not mimic her You divert me against my conscience And upon my word I do not think Mr Knightley would be much disturbed by Miss Bates Little things do not irritate him She might talk on and if he wanted to say a... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | been always locked up We found the brass box there although its contents had been destroyed On the inside of the cover was a paper label with the initials of K K K repeated upon it and Letters memoranda receipts and a register written beneath These we presume indicated the nature of the papers which had been destroyed ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | be made uncomfortable any more I hope We shall soon improve our youthful humours God help me I might have been improved for my whole life I might have been made another creature perhaps for life by a kind word at that season A word of encouragement and explanation of pity for my childish ignorance of welcome home of re... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | lamp in her hand which she held above her head pushing her face forward and peering at us I could see that she was pretty and from the gloss with which the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich material She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as though asking a question and when my compa... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | in silence and then in a broken voice begged me to let him go to bed I ll tell ye the morn he said as sure as death I will And so weak was he that I could do nothing but consent I locked him into his room however and pocketed the key and then returning to the kitchen made up such a blaze as had not shone there for many... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | cases you will be shown a heap of paper and you will look for this page of the _Times_ among it The odds are enormously against your finding it There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening And now Watson it only remains for us to find out by wire the id... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | special brain center but scattered throughout their spinal cords could not be tapped by any modern weapons The most that we could do was to check their progress by distracting their attention with the flash and roar of our guns and so to give both the natives and ourselves time to reach the steps which led to safety Bu... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | it Nickleby he said after a pause Nicholas shrugged his shoulders in a manner that was scarcely perceptible and said he saw it was And a very good way it is too said Squeers Now just take them fourteen little boys and hear them some reading because you know you must begin to be useful Idling about here won t do Mr Sque... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | love This I promised and so the matter rests So there is one of our small mysteries cleared up It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are floundering We know now why Stapleton looked with disfavour upon his sister s suitor even when that suitor was so eligible a one as Sir Henry And now... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | is rather a ridiculous line of conversation He turned away but I saw that he felt even more than he had said To all the old ghost stories of Thorpe Place a new one was being added before our very eyes It may by this time have taken its permanent place for though an explanation came to me it never reached the others And... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | circumstances my lord replied Ralph On your lordship s circumstances interposed Colonel Chowser of the Militia and the race courses The gallant colonel glanced at Messrs Pyke and Pluck as if he thought they ought to laugh at his joke but those gentlemen being only engaged to laugh for Sir Mulberry Hawk were to his sign... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | better said John Clay serenely He made a sweeping bow to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the detective Really Mr Holmes said Mr Merryweather as we followed them from the cellar I do not know how the bank can thank you or repay you There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated in the mos... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | the garden in a wide circuit I would fain see whether thine eyes betrayed thee Keeping well outwards from the wall and profiting by every height and hollow they passed about two sides beholding nothing On the third side the garden wall was built close upon the beach and to preserve the distance necessary to their purpo... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | by the barns and buildings of a farm yard Mary exclaimed Bless me here is Winthrop I declare I had no idea Well now I think we had better turn back I am excessively tired Henrietta conscious and ashamed and seeing no cousin Charles walking along any path or leaning against any gate was ready to do as Mary wished but No... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | to and fro With all that a sort of horror of despair sat on my mind so that I could have wept at my own helplessness I saw Alan knitting his brows at me and supposed it was in anger and that gave me a pang of light headed fear like what a child may have I remember too that I was smiling and could not stop smiling hard ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Miss Elliot that she did not hear the appeal I have no conception whom you can mean Shepherd I remember no gentleman resident at Monkford since the time of old Governor Trent Bless me how very odd I shall forget my own name soon I suppose A name that I am so very well acquainted with knew the gentleman so well by sight... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | to the constant and unremitting persecution of Sir Mulberry Hawk who now began to feel his character even in the estimation of his two dependants involved in the successful reduction of her pride that she had no intervals of peace or rest except at those hours when she could sit in her solitary room and weep over the t... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | decisive man ordered that the sound should not be answered but that the course should be changed and that his men should make towards it at the double So we slanted to the right where the East was and Joe pounded away so wonderfully that I had to hold on tight to keep my seat It was a run indeed now and what Joe called... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | fate was not that of the voyager by sea and land he was to travel in the spirit and begin his journey sooner than he supposed For it chanced one day that his walk led him into a portion of the uplands which was almost unknown to him Scrambling through some rough woods he came out upon a moorland reaching towards the hi... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | him shouted vague orders He saw close at hand the black moustached man in yellow who had been among those who had greeted him in the public theatre shouting directions The hall was already densely packed with swaying people the little metal gallery sagged with a shouting load the curtains at the end had been torn away ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | better be done by somebody else Dan l said Mrs Gummidge I m a lone lorn creetur myself and everythink that reminds me of creetur s that ain t lone and lorn goes contrary with me Come old gal cried Mr Peggotty Take and heave it No Dan l returned Mrs Gummidge whimpering and shaking her head If I felt less I could do more... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | that was to inquire into my state of mind towards God I was inclined to smile at him since the business of the snuff but he had not spoken long before he brought the tears into my eyes There are two things that men should never weary of goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold p... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | his favourite child Poor dear what do you think of this brother Ned Madeline has only written to her once only once Ned and she didn t think she would have forgotten her quite so soon Ned Oh sad sad very sad said Ned The brothers interchanged a glance and looking at Kate for a little time without speaking shook hands a... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | acquaintance Be seated if you please And I showed him an example and sat down myself in my customary seat and with as fair an imitation of my ordinary manner to a patient as the lateness of the hour the nature of my preoccupations and the horror I had of my visitor would suffer me to muster I beg your pardon Dr Lanyon ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | across rapids and in each case made a portage of half a mile or so to avoid them The woods on either side were primeval which are more easily penetrated than woods of the second growth and we had no great difficulty in carrying our canoes through them How shall I ever forget the solemn mystery of it The height of the t... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | of more and always the knowledge of his being there It was in one of these short meetings each apparently occupied in admiring a fine display of greenhouse plants that she said I have been thinking over the past and trying impartially to judge of the right and wrong I mean with regard to myself and I must believe that ... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | On receiving it she could instantly decide on its containing little writing and was persuaded of its having the air of a letter of haste and business Its object was unquestionable and two moments were enough to start the probability of its being merely to give her notice that they should be in Portsmouth that very day ... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | observed in a shop assistant before Then came a lot of youngsters scattering sawdust and carrying pails and brooms I had to dodge to get out of the way and as it was my ankle got stung with the sawdust For some time wandering through the swathed and darkened departments I could hear the brooms at work And at last a goo... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | is your number one the second my number one The more you value your number one the more careful you must be of mine so we come at last to what I told you at first that a regard for number one holds us all together and must do so unless we would all go to pieces in company That s true rejoined Mr Bolter thoughtfully Oh ... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | felt it almost impossible to repress Nor was the intensity of these feelings at all diminished when she found herself placed at the top of the table with Sir Mulberry Hawk and Lord Frederick Verisopht on either side Oh you ve found your way into our neighbourhood have you said Sir Mulberry as his lordship sat down Of c... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | is called eerie came upon him He closed the door of the room came forward to the dressing table and put down his burdens Suddenly with a start he perceived a coiled and blood stained bandage of linen rag hanging in mid air between him and the wash hand stand He stared at this in amazement It was an empty bandage a band... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | starved in good earnest As he said this Ralph clenched his left wrist tightly with his right hand and inclining his head a little on one side and dropping his chin upon his breast looked at him whom he addressed with a frowning sullen face The very picture of a man whom nothing could move or soften Yesterday was my fir... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | discriminating action it was neither diabolical nor divine it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition and like the captives of Philippi that which stood within ran forth At that time my virtue slumbered my evil kept awake by ambition was alert and swift to seize the occasion and the thing that was proj... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | taken from him It hung limp for a moment in mid air fluttered weirdly stood full and decorous buttoning itself and sat down in his chair Drawers socks slippers would be a comfort said the Unseen curtly And food Anything But this is the insanest thing I ever was in in my life He turned out his drawers for the articles a... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | the coming of man Question boomed the voice once more Waldron looked with amazement along the line of professors upon the platform until his eyes fell upon the figure of Challenger who leaned back in his chair with closed eyes and an amused expression as if he were smiling in his sleep I see said Waldron with a shrug I... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | make the most of what we have Ye shall come on board my brig for half an hour till the ebb sets and drink a bowl with me Now I longed to see the inside of a ship more than words can tell but I was not going to put myself in jeopardy and I told him my uncle and I had an appointment with a lawyer Ay ay said he he passed ... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | beauty Mrs Long said so too for I asked her whether you did not And what do you think she said besides Ah Mrs Bennet we shall have her at Netherfield at last She did indeed I do think Mrs Long is as good a creature as ever lived and her nieces are very pretty behaved girls and not at all handsome I like them prodigious... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | prefer the clock Certainly said the stranger certainly but as a rule I like to be alone and undisturbed But I m really glad to have the clock seen to he said seeing a certain hesitation in Mr Henfrey s manner Very glad Mr Henfrey had intended to apologise and withdraw but this anticipation reassured him The stranger tu... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | the house and thought of them and felt for them with a degree of affectionate regret which they had never done much to deserve CHAPTER XXII Fanny s consequence increased on the departure of her cousins Becoming as she then did the only young woman in the drawing room the only occupier of that interesting division of a ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | of herself these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments The danger however was at present so unperceived that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her Sorrow came a gentle sorrow but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness Miss Taylor married It was Miss Tay... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | of pain between them and very dexterously and swiftly he bound my arm meanwhile He slung it from my shoulder stood back and looked at me You ll do he said And now He thought Then he went out and locked the gates of the enclosure He was absent some time I was chiefly concerned about my arm The incident seemed merely one... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | to parry mishaps I even called and made myself a familiar object in my second character I next drew up that will to which you so much objected so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr Jekyll I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss And thus fortified as I supposed on every side I began to pr... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries Of course you have seen him then Why are you looking at that dark tree in the lane I saw him there on the night she died That was not the last time either Biddy No I have seen him there since we have been walking here It is of no use said Biddy laying her... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | be hysterical again I dare say we shall have nothing to distress us I perfectly understand Mr Robinson s directions and have no fears and indeed Mary I cannot wonder at your husband Nursing does not belong to a man it is not his province A sick child is always the mother s property her own feelings generally make it so... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | illustrate his remarks My only other remembrances of the great festival are That they wouldn t let me go to sleep but whenever they saw me dropping off woke me up and told me to enjoy myself That rather late in the evening Mr Wopsle gave us Collins s ode and threw his bloodstained sword in thunder down with such effect... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | breath of it came near the house of Shaws It had fallen blacker than ever and I was glad to feel along the wall till I came the length of the stairtower door at the far end of the unfinished wing I had got the key into the keyhole and had just turned it when all upon a sudden without sound of wind or thunder the whole ... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | sobbing and found two scared little girls crouched by a railing These children became silent at the near sound of feet He tried to console them but they were very still until he left them Then as he receded he could hear them sobbing again Presently he found himself at the foot of a staircase and near a wide opening He... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | that it has been tampered with said Mortimer It caught my eye the moment that I passed through the room this morning I examined it yesterday evening so that it is certain that this has happened during the night It was as he had said obvious that someone had been at work upon it The settings of the uppermost row of four... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | this little thing alongside a rough weather chap like me said Mr Peggotty looking round at both of us with infinite pride but the sea ain t more salt in it than she has fondness in her for her uncle a foolish little Em ly Em ly s in the right in that Mas r Davy said Ham Lookee here As Em ly wishes of it and as she s hu... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | or will he find courage to release himself at the |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | explain I have meant to I have wanted to And now I cannot I am not ready with words But about you there is something It is wonder Your sleep your awakening These things are miracles To me at least and to all the common people You who lived and suffered and died you who were a common citizen wake again live again to fin... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | equally in the Duke s dependence it mattered less than might appear Still I cried out that he was unjust to the Duke of Argyle who for all he was a Whig was yet a wise and honest nobleman Hoot said Alan the man s a Whig nae doubt but I would never deny he was a good chieftain to his clan And what would the clan think i... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | poor Harry is killed and I believe his murderer for what purpose God alone can tell is still lurking in his victim s room Well let our name be vengeance Call Bradshaw The footman came at the summons very white and nervous Pull yourself together Bradshaw said the lawyer This suspense I know is telling upon all of you bu... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | a conversation in which she had no share Louisa you will not mind my waking Mr Hurst Her sister had not the smallest objection and the pianoforte was opened and Darcy after a few moments recollection was not sorry for it He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention Chapter 12 In consequence of an ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | years been crowded Tea passed pleasantly and nobody seemed in a hurry to move Miss Woodhouse said Frank Churchill after examining a table behind him which he could reach as he sat have your nephews taken away their alphabets their box of letters It used to stand here Where is it This is a sort of dull looking evening t... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | too and so redeemed the pledge Where is it now asked Monks quickly _There_ replied the woman And as if glad to be relieved of it she hastily threw upon the table a small kid bag scarcely large enough for a French watch which Monks pouncing upon tore open with trembling hands It contained a little gold locket in which w... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | the footlights and fell into a beautiful attitude of terror as a shabby gentleman in an old pair of buff slippers came in at one powerful slide and chattering his teeth fiercely brandished a walking stick They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden said Mrs Crummles Oh said the manager the little ballet int... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | own little room and I was pleased too for I felt that I had done rather a great thing in making the request When the shadows of evening were closing in I took an opportunity of getting into the garden with Biddy for a little talk Biddy said I I think you might have written to me about these sad matters Do you Mr Pip sa... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | a community of interests in science kept us so He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles s nervous... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | and walked in a very stately manner up to Nicholas who suffered him to approach to within the requisite distance and then without the smallest discomposure knocked him down Before the discomfited tragedian could raise his head from the boards Mrs Lenville who as has been before hinted was in an interesting state rushed... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | and he asked her how he could have it sent He bowed his bandaged head quite politely in acknowledgment of her explanation To morrow he said There is no speedier delivery and seemed quite disappointed when she answered No Was she quite sure No man with a trap who would go over Mrs Hall nothing loath answered his questio... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | hands he stooped to get it and at the same moment both men ran in and closed with him A little after he got to his feet very sore and shaken the poorer by a purse which contained exactly one penny postage stamp by a cambric handkerchief and by the all important envelope Here was a young man on whom at the highest point... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | between them and she may be forgiven by older sages for looking on the chance of Miss Crawford s future improvement as nearly desperate for thinking that if Edmund s influence in this season of love had already done so little in clearing her judgment and regulating her notions his worth would be finally wasted on her e... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | himself or interpose to redress a wrong offered to another as boldly and freely as any knight that ever set lance in rest but he lacked that peculiar excess of coolness and great minded selfishness which invariably distinguish gentlemen of high spirit In truth for our own part we are disposed to look upon such gentlema... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | here said I Say that likewise retorted Pumblechook Say you said that and even Joseph will probably betray surprise There you quite mistake him said I I know better Says you Pumblechook went on Joseph I have seen that man and that man bears you no malice and bears me no malice He knows your character Joseph and is well ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | upon their short rifles and glanced keenly at us as we passed The coachman a hard faced gnarled little fellow saluted Sir Henry Baskerville and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad white road Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick ... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | decorative façade That gradual passage of town into country through an extensive sponge of suburbs which was so characteristic a feature of the great cities of the nineteenth century existed no longer Nothing remained of it here but a waste of ruins variegated and dense with thickets of the heterogeneous growths that h... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | comfort in their twinkling All the old constellations had gone from the sky however that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings But the Milky Way it seemed to me was still the same tattered streamer of star dust as of yore Southward as I ... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | him away from the outlook You are tired he said and while I sit you walk about Have my chair He placed himself between Griffin and the nearest window For a space Griffin sat silent and then he resumed abruptly I had left the Chesilstowe cottage already he said when that happened It was last December I had taken a room ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | which to start our speculation Now you would call it a guess no doubt but I am almost certain that this address has been written in a hotel How in the world can you say that If you examine it carefully you will see that both the pen and the ink have given the writer trouble The pen has spluttered twice in a single word... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | successes to which we shall refer no farther pulling down his neckcloth with a smile That man exists no more by an exercise of will I have destroyed him There is something like it in the poets First a brilliant and conspicuous career the observed I may say of all observers including the bum bailie and then presto a qui... |
Jane Austen | Emma | Harriet was professing himself _her_ lover She tried to stop him but vainly he would go on and say it all Angry as she was the thought of the moment made her resolve to restrain herself when she did speak She felt that half this folly must be drunkenness and therefore could hope that it might belong only to the passing... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | with the puma The brandy I did not touch for I have been an abstainer from my birth VII THE LOCKED DOOR The reader will perhaps understand that at first everything was so strange about me and my position was the outcome of such unexpected adventures that I had no discernment of the relative strangeness of this or that ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | which formed a grotesque accompaniment to the shriek with which it was blended For three or four minutes on end the fearsome duet continued while all the foliage rustled with the rising of startled birds Then it shut off as suddenly as it began For a long time we sat in horrified silence Then Lord John threw a bundle o... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | Has he been doing the Amateur Cadger I don t follow I met the eye of the Psychologist and read my own interpretation in his face I thought of the Time Traveller limping painfully upstairs I don t think anyone else had noticed his lameness The first to recover completely from this surprise was the Medical Man who rang t... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | for their enemies What do you make of them Challenger asked Lord John One thing is very clear to me and that is that the little chap with the front of his head shaved is a chief among them It was indeed evident that this man stood apart from the others and that they never ventured to address him without every sign of d... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | off his hat and prayed a little while aloud and in affecting terms for a young man setting out into the world then suddenly took me in his arms and embraced me very hard then held me at arm s length looking at me with his face all working with sorrow and then whipped about and crying good bye to me set off backward by ... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | perhaps might feel that it would not much amuse him to have her for a partner Very well was her ladyship s contented answer then speculation if you please Mrs Grant I know nothing about it but Fanny must teach me Here Fanny interposed however with anxious protestations of her own equal ignorance she had never played th... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | nodded his head very seriously and walked on once more in silence THE LAST NIGHT Mr Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole Bless me Poole what brings you here he cried and then taking a second look at him What ails you he added is the doctor ill... |
Jane Austen | Emma | on a day now near at hand and spending the whole evening away from him As for _his_ going Emma did not wish him to think it possible the hours would be too late and the party too numerous He was soon pretty well resigned I am not fond of dinner visiting said he I never was No more is Emma Late hours do not agree with u... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | pass minute after minute through a hundred degrees of cold damp and exhaustion In a little while he ceased to feel his hands and feet The gutter sloped downwards He observed that they were now many feet below the edge of the buildings Rows of spectral white shapes like the ghosts of blind drawn windows rose above them ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | find agreeable though every body seemed rather fagged after the morning s party Even pleasure you know is fatiguing and I cannot say that any of them seemed very much to have enjoyed it However _I_ shall always think it a very pleasant party and feel extremely obliged to the kind friends who included me in it Miss Fair... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | cook crying out Bless God it s Mr Utterson ran forward as if to take him in her arms What what Are you all here said the lawyer peevishly Very irregular very unseemly your master would be far from pleased They re all afraid said Poole Blank silence followed no one protesting only the maid lifted her voice and now wept ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | five minutes before the half hour you must be at table in your old seat under Uncle Duthie s picture Flora will be there to keep you countenance and we shall see what we shall see Wouldn t it be wiser for me to stay in bed said John If you mean to manage your own concerns you can do precisely what you like replied Alex... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | an it like your grace returned Lord Foxham He hath well served the cause It likes me well said Richard Let them be wedded speedily Say fair maid will you wed My lord duke said Alicia so as the man is straight And there in a perfect consternation the voice died on her tongue He is straight my mistress replied Richard ca... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | born and bred in retirement and wholly unacquainted with what is called the world a conventional phrase which being interpreted often signifieth all the rascals in it mingled their tears together at the thought of their first separation and this first gush of feeling over were proceeding to dilate with all the buoyancy... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | and bit it through It sets my teeth on edge to think of it He beat me then as if he would have beaten me to death Above all the noise we made I heard them running up the stairs and crying out I heard my mother crying out and Peggotty Then he was gone and the door was locked outside and I was lying fevered and hot and t... |
Jane Austen | Emma | heard him speak and so must you so very highly of Jane Fairfax The interest he takes in her his anxiety about her health his concern that she should have no happier prospect I have heard him express himself so warmly on those points Such an admirer of her performance on the pianoforte and of her voice I have heard him ... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | almost unendurable provocation and once or twice things were snapped torn crushed or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him but though Mrs Hall listened conscientiously she could make neit... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | at my intense excitement overnight I made a careful examination of the ground about the little lawn I wasted some time in futile questionings conveyed as well as I was able to such of the little people as came by They all failed to understand my gestures some were simply stolid some thought it was a jest and laughed at... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | to speak to her She felt that something must be the matter The change was indubitable The difference between his present air and what it had been in the Octagon Room was strikingly great Why was it She thought of her father of Lady Russell Could there have been any unpleasant glances He began by speaking of the concert... |
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